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> We can’t live in a world with what he calls “counterfeit people.”.. Artificial people will always have less at stake than real ones, and that makes them amoral actors, he added. “Not for metaphysical reasons but for simple, physical reasons: They are sort of immortal.”
.. We need strict liability for the technology’s creators,

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

In the profile of #EmilyMBender, #DanielDennet makes me think of #TheCorporation, #LegalPersons and then Lewis Mumford's #MegaMachine

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> I [,Elizabeth Wiel] found myself, one Saturday night, eating trout niçoise at the house of a friend who is a tech-industry veteran... he was saying if you build a machine with as many receptors as a human brain, you’ll probably get a human — or close enough, right? Why would that entity be less special?
--- #ElizabethWeil

Is the tech-industry full of people that serve as exhibits for the failure of the #humanities in education?

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In 2012, Noam Chomsky was interviewed "on Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong":
> Chomsky discusses a new field in systems biology called “Connectomics,” an attempt to map the wiring of all the neurons in the brain—an endeavor prickly biologist Sydney Brenner calls “a form of insanity.” Katz asks if the “wiring diagram” of the brain would provide “the right level of abstraction” for understanding its workings.
https://www.openculture.com/2012/11/noam_chomsky_explains_where_artificial_intelligence_went_wrong_.html
#Chomsky with #SydneyBrenner on AI:
Noam Chomsky Explains Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong

While popularly known for his piercing and relentless critiques of U.S. foreign policy and economic neoliberalism, Noam Chomsky made his career as a researcher and professor of linguistics and cognitive science.

Open Culture
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> .. the absurdity of using the machine to explain the autonomous processes of organization and growth and reproduction comes out.. in the story #FrankOConnor tells of his mother’s effort to explain to him.. how babies are conceived, without going into embarrassing.. intimacies “mummies had an engine in their tummies and daddies had a starting handle that made it work, and once it started it went on until it made a baby.”.. [A] "natural,’.. mechanical.. ‘objective’ [explanation].
#LewisMumford
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#NoamChomsky(2012) mentions a #PatWinston talk of #AI getting "to the point where" they could do something useful, turned to "practical applications and.. abandoned.. the more fundamental #ScientificQuestions.. caught up in.. #technology and achieving specific goals" and came to "direct people away from the original questions." #Chomsky was "skeptical about the original work.. too optimistic.. assuming.. you could achieve things.. real understanding"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-chomsky-on-where-artificial-intelligence-went-wrong/261637/
#Science v. #Tech
Noam Chomsky: Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong

An extended conversation with the legendary linguist

The Atlantic
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Would #PatrickWinston be different than #Norvig on #AIHype, human intelligence, "the mind"?
> Why is it that we're here instead of the orangutans? Today, to tell the story, I'm going to start with right now and go back about 50,000 years. I'll conclude that this because we can tell stories and they can't, at least not to the same degree...
> why none of this matters unless it's connected to vision
https://cbmm.mit.edu/video/patrick-winston-story-understanding-story
#ChatGPT, was supposed to help understand people not jerk them around.
Patrick Winston: The Story Understanding Story | The Center for Brains, Minds & Machines

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